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Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO)

The Asian Studies Program at Kennesaw State University (KSU) presents the next Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO.)
The purposes of SAUPO include information exchange, personal network building, global visibility, and investment to/from Asia. It is anticipated that over 400 business leaders, diplomats, non-profit activists, scholars, investors, and government officials from Asia, USA and other parts of the world will attend SAUPO in Atlanta. There will be a delegation of Chinese investors coming, seeking for projects to invest.
2018 SAUPO-Atlanta Confirmed Speakers include:
o Ken Harmon, Interim President, Kennesaw State University
o John Merrill, Secretary of State, Alabama, USA
o Young-jun Kim, Consul General of Korea in Atlanta
o Yutaka Nakamura Deputy Consul General of Japan In Atlanta
o Zhencheng Zhou, Consul, Director of Commerce, Consulate General of China in Houston
o Mark Viken, VP of Marketing, Hisense
o Dan Forsman, President & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
o Michael Sullivan, Managing Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
o Lucy Lu, Global Managing Partner, Lucy Lu & Associates
o Nagendra Roy, Senior Director -IT, Aptude, Inc.
o Donald Morrissey, Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.
o Martin Judge Jr., Chairman, China Arena Football League (CAFL)
o Glad Cheng, Chairman, China Window Group
o Jessica Cork, VP, Public Relations, YKK Corporation of America
o Frank Su, President, Kids’R’Kids China
o Wade Edwards, Int’l Marketing Director, Habitat for Humanity International
o Huandong Gao, Sr. Director of Growth, Walmart Headquarters
o Stephen Haverfield, Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Alumni Association
o Yoshi Domoto, Executive Director, Japan-America Society of Georgia
o Wendy Lu, Tax Senior Manager, Aprio
o Landon Van Dyke, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State
o Brendan Tate, U.S. Department of the Interior
o Brad Taylor, VP, The Coca-Cola Company
o Shiyu Wang, Chairman, Fargo Fortune Investment Group (China)
o Stan Shengqi Wang, Managing Partner, Tenfunder Investment Fund (China)
o Qixin Zhang, Chairman, Phoenix City Investment Fund; CPPCC Member (China)
o Michael Guo, Sr. Director of Software Engineering, LexisNexis
